Search for crossword answers and clues
Order to confine gangster for last two members of panel
Answer for the clue "Order to confine gangster for last two members of panel ", 9 letters:
committal
Alternative clues for the word committal
Word definitions for committal in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to a committee. alt. Of or relating to a committee. n. 1 The act of entrusting something to someone. 2 The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment. 3 The act of perpetrate an offence. 4 The act of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Committal \Com*mit"tal\, n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from commit + -al (2). As an adjective, attested from 1884, apparently a back-formation from non-committal .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN order ▪ The first is that Form N111 was used as a committal order rather than Form N79. ▪ How can an administrative failure to serve an unimpeachable committal order invalidate the committal order? ▪ The committal order ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment , consignment ] the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration , commission ]
Usage examples of committal.
The press, of course, were there, though in nothing like the numbers there would be at the committal and trial.
However, this decision need not be binding upon the examining justices at any subsequent committal hearing.
I mean, we've got to show our hand at the committal to get the justices to agree to send him for trial at the assizes.
Because the committal hearing's only purpose was to decide whether the prosecution had a prima facie case against the accused, usually only the prosecution would put their case before the magistrates.
Even if we get our committal, we're still a long way off home and dry.
During the four-day committal, her mother, who married Hawkin just over a year ago, gave evidence for the prosecution.
At his committal before Buxton justices in February, his wife was among the prosecution witnesses.
Charlie Lomas managed to repeat his unflustered performance at the committal, impressing the jury with his open manner and his obvious unhappiness about the disappearance of his cousin.
Outside this world of movement there was absolute stillness and silence as if the rest of America was holding its breath at the committal of this gigantic crime.
The activity she had first encountered as she emerged from the silent corridors into the hallway was as nothing to what developed as the entire administration of the Citadel was marshalled to implement the Gevethen’s order for the committal of every resource to the immediate capture of the Count.
The sons of John of Barneveld had planned to avenge their father's death by the committal of a cruel and dastardly murder: fate and the treachery of mercenary accomplices had intervened, and now Groeneveld was on the eve of condemnation, and Stoutenburg was a wanderer on the face of the earth with a price put upon his head.
A preliminary committal hearing to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to proceed to a full trial is scheduled in Rome for December 7.
At the conclusion of the committal service, the chaplain intoned, “.
The words of the committal service said, 'When the sea shall give up her dead' -but that sea never would.
I caught barely one word in ten of the committal and then it was all over: no meaningless rifle salutes, no empty blowing of bugles, just the service and the silence and the dark shapes of stumbling men hurriedly placing fragments of broken ice over the canvas-sheeted forms.